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Have any of you tried Oreo Cookie Balls yet? My husband brought me one home that someone at his office made. It was so good! I plan to make them for our holiday party this year. They sound very easy to make. Only three ingredients and no baking. If any of you are familiar with chocolate wafer ice box cake these work on the same principle. 1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened 36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups) 4 pkg. (4 oz. each) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, broken into pieces, melted MIX cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended. SHAPE into 48 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Dip balls in melted chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan. REFRIGERATE 1 hour or until firm. Here is a link that might be useful: Oreo cookie balls

I know you probably wanted a recipe before Christmas, but I first saw your post. I also was looking for a good recipe for a cut out cookie, and these had a good review. Found on Yummly: Danielle's Cream Cheese Cut-Out Cookies 5 ***** (2) Total time: 2 hr 25 min PT1620S Prep time: 10 min Ingredients: 1 cup salted butter (room temperature) 8 oz. cream cheese (room temperature) 1 cup granulated sugar 1 large eggs 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract (good quality pure, worth) 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 T. meringue powder 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar 3 T. water (lukewarm) 1 Cream together the butter, cream cheese, and sugar. 2 Add the egg and vanilla, mix well. 3 Switch beater hooks for dough hooks on your mixer. 4 Stir baking power into flour then add to butter mixture. Beat well until flour is incorporate. Scraping down sides of bowl as necessary. Take care not to over-mix. 5 Divide dough into at least 4 balls and wrap with plastic wrap. Chill in fridge for at least 2 hours. Can also be frozen. Allow to come to fridge temperature before rolling. 6 I like to make these on the thick side so the tang of the cream cheese can really be tasted. I roll mine just over 1/4" thick. Cut out as many cookies as possible from the first "sheet" of dough. Gather the scraps and put them back into the plastic wrap. Reserve all scraps for rolling later after they chill again. Put your cookies on a cookie sheet. I have never had a problem using an ungreased sheet. Cookies will not spread so they can be placed very close together. 7 OPTIONAL STEP: Put the cookie sheet with your raw cookies into the fridge for about 3 minutes. This keeps the edges very crisp and square. They will not soften and round in the oven. 8 Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Bake first batch and set timer for 8 minutes. Check at this point and see if they still look shiny. If so, add 1 more minute. Should not take longer than 10 minutes. 9 Let cookies cool and prepare icing. Mix icing ingredients in a small bowl with a spoon. Scrape the sides to incorporate all the sugar. 10 Spread icing on cookies with an icing spatula or dip the tines of a serving fork into the icing and drizzle over the cookies. Color and add crunch with decorating sugars.

I think that any cookie recipe works if you: Replace butter with vegan margarine, I like Earth Balance which comes in tubs and sticks. Replace chocolate chips with dairy free chocolate chips. NO! Not carob...Tropical Source makes a really good vegan chip that is real chocolate but it is produced where nuts are produced. Well, that is a lot of name brand dropping, but those two things work very well for me. I don't see why regular recipes can't work...I've got vegan friends who make everything under the sun...there is egg substitute, too, so it shouldn't be too hard. Have fun baking!